102’s Kindergarten News For You!

Reading/Writing:   We are working on telling and writing a story with a beginning, a middle and an ending.  Some of us are making up a problem to our story so that we can explain how the problem was fixed!  We retold the story of The Little Red Hen using puppets.  She had a problem.  What was it?  How did she fix it? We are also identifying the characters and setting in a story.  When reading to your child, be sure to ask them where/who these are!  Our new words will be: because, one, two, three, four & five.

Math/Numbers: We are spiraling back to see if we remember how to read a graph, what kind of a graph is being read (picture, line, pie or bar) as well as making our own graphs.  Some of us forgot some of this.  Numeral writing:  practice those 6’s, 9’s, 2’s & 5’! Counting by 5’s has been fun because we can use nickels.  Counting by 10’s is a breeze because we can use dimes and it’s SO FAST!!!! Zooom! 

Special Topics:  We will begin talking about the FIVE SENSES next week because that will lead us into one of my favorite topics:  FOOD! Food will lead us into NUTRITION. J

Important Stuff:  I have seen some beautiful, warm coats, hats & gloves on the kids.  Darn kids keep growing, don’t they? Please try to mark these with names if possible as some are identical to a friend’s.  NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS ON Monday, October 31, 2011!

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT STUFF:  The students get to vote for the teacher wearing their favorite costume. Remind your child to vote for ME!  Hee! Hee!  J  We’ll see if they can figure out what I am as I haven’t told them yet!   BOO!

Until next time,                                         
Mrs. SteinmanJ

102’s Kindergarten News For You!

Reading/Writing:  New letter Nn.   Our new word families will use letters /a/ or /i/ or in the middle.  Practice making words using the sound of /n/. 

Word Families:  have your child say the sounds, then “sing” the sounds  in order to slide it together.

The children are beginning to use temporary spelling.  This means writing a letter for each sound they hear.  Even if the word is spelled incorrectly, but all of the sounds are there, that is okay. Although, if they are spelling a word family word (hat, cat, pin, zip, etc…) OR a sight word from our word list these must be spelled correctly.

We are working on beginning our letters in the proper place on the line when writing.  The same works for numerals. Please take a look at your child’s handwriting papers when they come home in case there’s a need for extra practice.

Math/Numbers:   Work on writing numerals to 50 without help. Greater than & less than.  Which numerals are larger or smaller and why?  Skip-counting: learning to count by 2’s, 5’s & 10’s so that we are able to work with money will begin!

Special Topics:  Fire-Prevention, Grandparents’ Day is next Friday!!!!
Important Stuff: OH!  The kids brought home their towels and because we have Book Nook areas now, they do NOT need to bring them back! THANKS!   

Until next time,

Mrs. SteinmanJ

October 3 - 7

102’s Kindergarten News For You!       

Reading/Writing:  Our new letters will be Tt and Bb.  Our new words will be it, is, in.  Our new word families will use letters /a/ or /i/ or in the middle.  Help your child listen for the sounds of letters in words so they understand its placement.  For example:  fan…where do you hear the /f/ sound?  Where do you hear the/n/ sound? Etc….

We are working on beginning our letters in the proper place on the line when writing.  The same works for numerals. 

Math/Numbers:   Work on writing numerals to 50 without help. Whew!   

Special Topics:  Autumn and Fire Prevention

Important Stuff: OH!  The kids brought home their towels and because we have Book Nook areas now, they do NOT need to bring them back! THANKS!  Please turn in your Grandparents’ Day information to the office ASAP so we are ready to have visitors in October!

Until next time,

Mrs. Steinman